Bill or account-slip holding book.



Patenfed. Nov. 13, I900.

F. E. BRADDOCK.

BILL 0R ACCOUNT SLIP HOLDING BOOK.

(Application filed June 29, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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FRANK E. BRADDOCK,.OF MIDDLEPORT, NEV YORK.

vBILL OR ACCOUNT-SLIP HOLDING BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,710, dated November13, 1900.

Serial No. 22,060. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK E. BRADDOCK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Middleport, in the county of Niagara and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billor Account-SlipHolding Books, of which the following is a specification.

For holding separate account-bills in book form I have produced a novelarrangement of tape pockets in which the sale-bills are kept and inwhich the daily sales are entered on each customers bill. This pocketprovision is made on each side of each leaf, so that a double page ofadjacent sides of two leaves is devoted to a single index-letter. Eachside of each leaf is adapted for holding bills in any desired numberunder the same letter of the alphabet in separate and distinct relationto each other, rendering the book convenient for keeping the daily salesupon billslips for each customer, saving the trouble and labor ofbookkeeping and making each individual account accessible under theproper letter of the alphabet. The pocket provision for holding thebills brings all the names of the customers on the adjacent sides of twoleaves of the book under the same letter, so that each leaf, with itsretained bills, may be dropped or turned down from a vertical positionto present to view the adjacent sides of two leaves and the names underdifferent indeX-letters on each bill, so that the desired one can bewithdrawn for the entry of the days sales and returned to its place onthe leaf of the book. The means for holding such account-bills isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, and the precise novel featureswill be pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing thebook open and the novel tape-pocket provision on each page for holdingthe bill accounts under the letter B of the alphabet. Fig. 2 is anidentical view showing a modified form of tape pockets. In these twoviews the upper half of the book is vertical and the lowerhalfhorizontal, presenting to view all the bills under the letter B. Fig. 3shows in cross-section, enlarged, two open leaves with the bills 7 heldin pockets 5, formed by separate band-tapes 2, secured on each side ofthe leaf, as in Fig.

1. Fig. 4 is an identical View, in which. the pockets 5 are formed onboth sides of the leaf by a single piece of tape passing through a hole6 in the leaf, as in Fig. 2, in both cases the tape pockets beingdirectly connected in groups to bands or cords 2, looped around theedges of the leaves parallel with the binding edges thereof, andtherefore they are fixed at right angles to their connected pockets 5Fig. 5 is a horizontal section taken through a leaf and its loop-band 2on the lineococ of Fig. 3, showing a plurality of loops 3 in said bandon each side of the leaf formed by staple-fastenings 4: and a tapepocket 5 connected at right angles to each loop. Fig. 5 is an enlargedsectional view taken on the line .2 zof Fig. 5, showing the separatetape pockets 5 secured on each side of the leaf and a bill 7 in eachpocket; and Fig. 5 shows in perspective one of the tape pockets securedto the loop-band at 10 and to the leaf at 6 the loop being open at 10,as in Figs. 1, 3, and 5. Fig. 6 is a section like Fig. 5, showinginstead of the loop-band 2 a loop-forming cord 2, interlaced with theleaf, as in the modification shown in Figs. 2 and 4. Fig. 6 is anenlarged sectional view taken on the line y y of Fig. 6, showing thedouble pockets formed of a single piece of tape, as in Fig. l, and bills7 in each pocket. Fig. 6 shows in perspective one of the doubleformedtape pockets 5 (seen in Fig. 6) with the hill 7 therein; and Fig. 7 is apartial end view of the bill-book, showing the back binders or spreaders8 for separating the leaves.

The leaves 1 of the book are of some stiff material and are properlysecured to the back and to the covers 9, so as to stand upright when thebook is open on its bound edge and one or more of its leaves turned downto present to view the adjacent sides of two leaves with their retainedbills under the same letter of the alphabet, making a double page forall the bills of one surname, as in Figs. 1 and 2. As the tape pocketsand the bills increase the thickness of the leaf they are bound withseparating-binders or spreaders 8, as in, Fig. 7, so that between theleaves there is room for the pockets and the bills. 'In this positionthe book is held by any suitable support for the standing back part andthe index-letters are presented so thatthe leaves can be turned .theleaf parallel with the bound back. Each band is made to form a pluralityof loops 3 by being secured to the leaf at suitable points 4 in thelength of the band.

The division-poin ts of the band-loops 3 may be by the well-known staplepaper-fastenings 4, which pierce the leaf over the band and clench orclamp over the same band on the other side of the leaf at the same pointas in Figs. 1, 5, and 5. \Vhen a tape band is used for forming theplurality of loops 3, the paperfastenings are used; but when a cord isused laced in and out of openings 4: in the leaf, as in Figs. 2, 6, and6 the loops 3 are formed between the openings 4 which form theintermediate fastening-points for the cord to the leaf. Thus whether theloop-band or the cord be used the plurality of loops 3 are formed insubstantially the same way on the opposite sides of the leaf. In Fig. 5the fastening-staple at is shown in section on both sides of the leaf.

The provision for holding the bills consists of pockets formed of apiece of tape or cord 5, fastened or connected at one end at 6 Fig. 5 totheleaf 1 and at its other end to the loopband 2, from which it dependsat right angles with its open end at 10 at the loop-band. This tapepocket however formed is connected to the loop-band on both sides of theleaf, as in Figs. 3 and 5.

In Figs. 3, 5 and 5 the pocket is a separate piece fastened on each sideof the leaf, while in Figs. 4:, 6 and 6 the pockets are formed on bothsides of the leaf by a single piece of tape fastened at its oppositeends to the cord on both sides of the leaf, passing for this pur posethrough an opening 6 in the leaf at a point above the loop-cord 2, asbest seen in Figs. 4 and 6 so that the tape pocket extends upward abovethe loop-cord on one side of the leaf to the fastening-point 6 andpassing through the opening at such point in the leaf downward to andconnects with the same cord on the other side of the leaf, as shown bydotted lines in Fig. 6 and Figs. 4 and 6, 50 that when two of the leavesare open, as in Figs. 1 and 2, all the pockets will stand upward toallow the bills to stand with the names of each readable at its upperend and be withdrawn and replaced in the same direction. In either case,as in Figs. 1 and 2, the closed or folded end of the pocket will extendto or near the open end of the pocket of the next adjacent loop band orcord.

While I have stated that however made the tape pocket is fastened to theleaf, such fastening effects the same result whether it be by cementingone end of the tape pocket, as at 6 in Fig. 5 or by passing the tapefreely through the opening 6, as in Fig. 6 It is the support afforded bythis opening that keeps the pockets in their normal relation to theirconnected loop band or cord on both sides of the leaf in the same Way asconnecting one end of the pocket to one side of the leaf.

Both ways of forming the band or cord loops 3 and both ways of formingthe tape pockets give the same arrangement and construction for holdingthe bills. Both the loop bands or cords may be made of inelasticmaterial with sufficientfullness to permit the easy insertion of thebills into the open ends of the pockets, so that when the bill is pusheddown to the closed or folded end of the pocket the bill end containingthe name of the purchaser will project out of the pocket to be easilyread, so that at a glance the desired bill can be seen and withdrawnfrom the pocket, the desired entries of the new sales made, and the billreplaced. In this Way the bills under any single letter of the alphabetare exposed to view on two open pages of the book, each bill folded andindorsed, so that each will occupy a. separate and distinct relation inthe group of each line of pockets, the bills in the pockets of one groupoverlying at their projecting indorsed ends the portions of the hillswhich are held within the adjacent group of pockets. The tape pockets ofeach loop band or cord being in line, the bills will also stand in line,so that the names indorsed on the bills will stand in lines parallelwith the bands or cords. The number of these bands and tape pockets willof course be governed by the size of the book.

In the example shown each leaf has a group of fifteen tape pocketsfivein each group-the pockets opening so as to hold the bills with theirindorsed ends standing in the direction of the line of the letters ofthe alphabet which face the open leaves.

Referring to Fig. 6 the double pocket is shown by dotted lines-a bill infull lines in one pocket and a bill in dotted lines in the pocket on theother side of the leaf-the bills standing in reverse relation, so as tobe properly read when the leaves are open to expose the pocket on eitherside, and this whether the pockets be formed as in Fig. 5 or in Fig. 6,both constructions being plainly seen in Figs. 5 and 6.

I claim 1'. In a bill or account holding book, the combination with theleaves, of bands or cords each forming a plurality of loops on theopposite sides of each leaf parallel with the bound back of the book,and tape pockets, each pocket connecting the leaf and a loop at rightangles to the lattereach pocket having its open end at its connectionwith the loop on the opposite sides of the leaf.

2. In a bill or account book, the combination with the leaves havingindex-letters, of bands or cords and means whereby they are formed intoa plurality of loops on the opposite sides of the leaf parallel with thebound back of the book, and tapes each having one end connected with aloop and its other end ICC IIO

connected with the leaf forming a pocket, the said pockets standing withtheir open ends toward and parallel with the line of the indeX-letters.

3. In a bill or account book the combination with the leaves, of bandsor cords parallel with the bound back looped around the leaf andfastened on both sides thereof at a plurality of points, whereby to formloops between such fastenings, and tape pockets extending in a line atright angles to each loop, t

opening thereat and fastened to the loop and to the leaf, the adjacentsides of each pair of leaves having an index-letter and the severalgroups of pockets of both leaves standing open 15 toward saidindex-letter. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence oftwo Witnesses.

FRANK E. BRADDOCK. Witnesses:

WM. D. HOYT, BRUoE H. COMPTON.

